latest toolchain in binary format?

[Steve Munroe]

mjstumpf writes:

> Just tried it.  Still no dice; compiling that way, using SLES 8 + 64 bit
> dev kit still results in a bogus error:
>
> lssbfrec.o: In function `lssbfrec':
> lssbfrec.c:21: undefined reference to `.LCTOC0'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

This is not the usual symptom for TOC overflow. I would expect something
like:

auxl.o(.text+0xdbfa): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC64_TOC16_DS
.toc+4360

Your error implies that a single object/compile unit is so large it can't
be compiled...

try:

 objdump -h *.o | grep '\.toc'

and add up all the numbers (in hex) from the 3rd column.

You may have to break this application into a number of shared libraries
(each *.so has its own 64KB TOC). So it would be good to know how close or
far you are from fitting. Also some applications try to prelink all
objects into a single large object and try to build the application from
that. This will not work in your case. And don't even think about linking
-static!

Also I have to ask all the obvious questions like: Is this gcc or xlc?
This xlf or g77?

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